Tour of Cap d’Antibes along the coastal path, a great idea for a family walk

We love walking with our dog on the coastal path, known as the “Sentier de Tirepoil”, at the southern tip of Cap d’Antibes.

This calm-weather walk is easy to do, with paths and steps in the steep areas. It takes between 1h30 and 2 hours to complete the entire route (approx. 5 km).

From the large parking lot on avenue André Sella, it’s just a 200-metre walk to leave the urbanized areas and find yourself facing the Baie des Anges, Nice and the peaks of the Parc du Mercantour in the background.

The walk is superb, calm and easy, and boasts an incredible diversity of species: sea cineraria, sea lavender (a protected species), Jupiter’s beard (an endemic species), rockroses and pines grace the walk, not to mention the birds, the limestone massif and the sea.

This little corner of paradise attracted, from the middle of the 19^th century, rich people who built prestigious residences there: The Château de la Garoupe dating from 1907, the Château de la Croë, dating from 1927 and which was, for a time, the home of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson. And let’s not forget Villa Eilenroc, dating from 1860 and bequeathed to the town of Antibes by its last owner, Hélène Beaumont, in 1982.

The walk ends on avenue Mrs LD Beaumont and avenue de la Tour Gandolphe.

The trail is called “Tire-Poil” because it’s often windy.